Film Praise for 10,000 B.C.
posted by on March 21 at 12:20 PM
The historical inaccuracies in 10,000 B.C. are only to be found in the particulars…
…But the movie is not about the accuracy of the particulars but the accuracy of the universal. The universal history of the world is that of a struggle between slaves and masters. This is correct. This the movie gets absolutely right. And this right thing about the movie is its climax: a slave revolt. It is by far the most spectacular slave revolt I’ve ever seen on a movie screen. And like all slave revolts, it gave me immense (and intense) pleasure. Slave drivers getting trampled by hairy, prehistoric elephants; evil masters losing their lily-livered lives to truth-driven slave warriors. WONDERFUL. More power to the (cave) people.
A slave riot is giving you a woody? You are twisted and preverted, and I can totally relate.
Mammoths R001!
I reviewed the film. It's a piece of shit. It doesn't work as history or fantasy.
Emmerich's movies are so willfully mentally retarded that I would have to be paid to ever sit through another one. I think I felt brain cells being killed while viewing "Day After Tomorrow". Never, ever again.
I am not entirely surprised to learn that Mudede identifies with cave-dwellers.
charles, i am with you 100%. i loved this movie.
#4 10,000 BC actually outdoes them all for pure unmitigated stupidity. It's kind of grand in its epic retardation.
#5: Charles fails to mention that the people don't live in caves in the film. I think there's one cave in Africa, but other than that everyone's living in huts. But since Charles doesn't care about historical accuracy, I suppose expecting accuracy in his film review is probably a pointless endeavor.
For the record, I just like being entertained, and it's on this basic level, the film falls on its face.
Um, Charles, didn't you think the ending was a tad predictable? That ruined the movie for me even more than the terrible science and history.
I AM SPARTICUS!!!
@7, Epic Retardation is the perfect description for this movie. It was so ridiculous and corny but I think it was supposed to be taken seriously?
It's absolutely a critique of global capitalism, Charles, and you're one of the few people to say so. A pyramid with a gold cap, a white guy theocracy, references to "the Almighty": it reverse-concretizes the power of the dollar. The plight of disparate populations losing members to economic slavery, then joining together, is going to play fairly well in worldwide release. It's a fairytale, sure. It's historically inept. But it's got a critical eye trained on globalism's backlash.
Remember when Charles recommended Bratz: The Movie?
charles
did they pay you to sit through this ? i made it through 17 minutes of it - the scene where they were eating fresh mammouth ribs was the straw that broke the back - before we exited asking for and
recieving our 18 dollars back. it was a waste of an otherwise lovely rain soaked and pot soddened afternoon. but maybe your pot is better than my pot.
Hang on, hang on.
They ate mammoths, lived in caves, and built the pyramids by 10,000 B.C.?
Historical inaccuracies to be sure! Everyone knows they didn't use slaves and ramps to build the pyramids, it was our alien progenetor's high technology that built them.
I scoff at the manpower theory!
*scoffs wildly*
Well they certainly didn't build pyramids in 10,000 BC with mammoths.
11: I think on some level Emmerich really thought he was creating something entertaining and worthwhile. Or at the very least, profitable.
So if Neanderthal man was enslaved to build the pyramids, does this make him Jewish?
@18, well he failed miserably. Except for the profit part from what I've heard, which I also sadly contributed to.
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A CGI MAMMOTH BEFORE
worth it.
Slave drivers getting trampled by hairy, prehistoric elephants; evil masters losing their lily-livered lives to truth-driven slave warriors. WONDERFUL.
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How about Silky Johnson travelling back in time to shoot a slavedriver with his Luger? I'd like to see that again, but in a movie.
"How's about ... nowish?"
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